Community action groups have been putting their heads together to come up with ways to help Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, a portion of the population that earn an income above the federal poverty level, but less than the basic cost of living in the area. ... read more about EMU students join community groups to help area residents struggling on the poverty line from WMRA
Professor Ryan Thompson is a former Christian Church youth pastor who began a master’s degree in counseling at Richmont Graduate University, affiliated with the evangelical church, and then finished his
... read more about A meditation on vocation: academic departments host chapel services
Three representatives from Eastern Mennonite University attended the seventh annual Hope for the Future conference hosted by Mennonite Church USA (MC USA). Melody Pannell, professor of social work, M. Esther
... read more about EMU representatives join fellow leaders of color at seventh annual MC USA Hope for the Future conference
Writing an instructional manual about growing and using elderberries for medicinal syrups may not look like peacebuilding at first glance, but Eastern Mennonite University senior Ben Rush’s practicum last fall
... read more about Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders
Senior Myneshia Walker (Freeman, Va./Brunswick) is known for being consistent and a humble leader for the EMU women’s basketball team. She is also known as one of the best shooting guards in
... read more about Royals Athlete of the Week: Senior Myneshia Walker among top shooting guards in the ODAC
Jeff Gingerich, an alumnus of Eastern Mennonite University, has been announced as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at University of Scranton. His appointment is effective July 1,
... read more about Alumnus named provost of University of Scranton
In 1967, Sharon Washington Risher heard The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Charleston, South Carolina. Then a little girl, she remembers being summoned with a phone call
... read more about Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’
In their last Fall 2017 class together, the students in SOWK 360 “Race and Gender” stood and linked arms, a living symbol of solidarity and connection after a semester of
... read more about Seeing ‘the cage’: EMU race and gender classmates explore inequality, systemic injustice
The Rev. Sharon Washington Risher knows hate: Among the nine black worshippers killed by a white supremacist at a prayer meeting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,
... read more about Sharon Washington Risher to speak as part of EMU’s week of MLK remembrance
When African American civil rights activist Vincent Harding and his wife visited Meridian, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, they met Titus Bender for the first time. Bender, then a Mennonite
... read more about Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change
